Infographic: Presenting A World Covered In (Hundred Dollar Bill) Debt

Our friends at Demonocracy [2]have once again surpassed themselves, and have followed up the infographic [3]showing the truckloads of cash that are needed to rescue the insolvent PIIGS, with this masterpiece which, while making the naive assumption that debt is represented by physical paper (when it is nothing but a bunch of electronic ones and zeros stored in various computers around the world), presents in gloriously visual terms precisely what the literal debt burden of the world’s would look like expressed in piles of one hundred dollar bills. The result is quite stunning…